Celebrate National Poetry Month

The Friends of Lorine Niedecker and the Dwight Foster Public Library are pleased to welcome local, award-winning poets to a reading on Wednesday, April 4 at 6:30 pm. This reading will be held at the Café Carpe at 18 S. Water St. W.Marilyn Annucci is the author of The Arrows That Choose Us, winner of the 2018 Press 53 Award for Poetry, and two chapbooks — Waiting Room, winner of the 2012 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize (Hill-Stead Museum), and Luck (Parallel Press). A former editor, Marilyn earned an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh, and she is a professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the UW-Whitewater.Nicholas Gulig is a Thai-American poet from Wisconsin. He is the first-place winner of the Wisconsin People & Ideas 2017 Poetry Contest. Educated in Montana, Iowa, and Colorado, Gulig earned a Fulbright Fellowship to Bangkok, Thailand, in 2011. His published works include the book-length poems North of Order and Book of Lake. He lives in Fort Atkinson and teaches at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater.Patrick Moran is the author of five collections of poetry: Tell A Pitiful Story, The Book of Lost Things, Doppelgangster, Rumors of Organized Crime, and the 2015 Grayson Book Prize Winner, There Are Things We Live Among. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in many journals and magazines including The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, and The Writer’s Chronicle. He is a 1995 graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.